Work examples 2014

ARCITECTURAL WORK EXAMPLES Shaun Merchant PgDip, MArch, BDes

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窶連rchitecture can only act as a recipient in which your desires, my desires can be reflected. Thus a piece of architecture is not architectural because it seduces, or because it fulfils some utilitarian function, but because it sets in motion the operations of seduction and the unconscious.

Tschumi, B. Architectural Design Vol 47, No3. Academy Group Ltd London, 1977

Project: St Petersburg Sailing Centre, St Petersburg, Russia Budget: $55million Brief: To produce a concept design for an overall masterplan of a marina site located in Lahkta St Petersburg. The site was part of a larger development which included the Gazprom Ochta tower

by RMJM, and was to link to the tower through a series of raised pedestrian walkways. The Brief was to provide an international standard sailing academy facilities and exclusive ‘boutique’ hotel accommodation which should be capable of operating as a self-contained and self-sustaining development, though should consider and relate to the adjoining Gazprom development. The development had to operate as a commercial sailing academy, supporting and serving the local domestic market, but also have the capacity to host larger international events.

Project Name: Vasilievsky Island, St Petersburg, Russia Budget: $59 million Brief: To produce a mixed used scheme for a disused marina site.

Including 13,000sqm office space, 36 retail units and 2 department stores with food courts, bars and restaurants, a hotel with 57 standard rooms and 22 VIP rooms. There will also be an operational marina including the design of a capitainerie which will oversee marina operations.

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Project Name: St Bonaventures, Bishopston, Bristol Budget: £3.5million Brief: Initially Benjamin and Beuchamp Architects produced a masterplan for the project which split the site into four phases, phase one and two were completed and then stopped due to funding issues. The Bush Consultancy were then appointed by the Clifton Diocese in conjunction with subconsultants Craddy Pitchers Davidson (Structural Engineers), Jones King (Building Services Engineers) together with Hookway Partnership (Quantity Surveyors) to carry out a “root and branch” study of the current development proposals and to present a feasibility option appraisal for taking the school building development forward. The bush Consultancy provided a feasibility study for three options and after interviews with Derek Salmon, the diocese surveyor, and the school governors, were appointed to complete phases three and four.

Project Name: Titanic Belfast, Belfat, Northan Ireland Budget: N/A Brief: Titanic Signature Project is an iconic six-floor building featuring nine interpretive and interactive galleries that explore the sights, sounds, smells and stories of Titanic, as well as the City and people which made her. It is the world’s largest Titanic exhibition. Kay Elliott were commissioned as interior Architects specifically to look after the quality of the visitor experience. This included the public entrances, four storey atrium, temporary exhibit galleries, a 1,000 seat banqueting suite/conference centre, pre function areas, front of house public hygiene, kitchen and VIP suite. Throughout the experience visitors will learn about the construction of RMS Titanic and the wide and rich story of Northern Ireland’s industrial and maritime heritage.

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Project Name: VIP Terminal, St Petersburg, Russia Budget: $59 million Brief: The site location identifies an opportunity to provide the new Zenith St Petersburg stadium with a VIP gateway which can be accessed by sea and air.

The proposal aims to provide a safe arrival point which welcomes visitors with a luxurious and secure experience. The building itself evokes exclusive status and encapsulates the aura of a special event. It is designed to the most flamboyant design standards promoting practical and comfortable accommodation. Its location and design creates an ‘arrival icon’ producing the most prestigious way to visit the stadium, and within itself provides a venue suitable for a variety of functions.

Project Name: Dubai, Dubailand Budget: $40million (landscape) Brief: To produce a design package for an 18 hole championship golf course which would be good for construction. After winning the bid for the landscape design the proposal was amended to include a landscape design package up to stage D, with on site consultation being subject to a separate bid.

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Project: Golf Course Development. Quba Azerbaijan Budget: $11.6 million Brief: Development of a 18 hole golf course with a clubhouse, maintenance building, driving range and halfway house. International Design Group were appointed as the architect, golf course designer and landscape architect. All buildings were designed by International Design Group and were prefabricated in Finland.

Project Name: Tanda Vali, Maharashtra, India Budget: $800million Brief: To produce a 500 page techno-commercial feasibility study and detailed project report, including concept designs for an ‘ocean world’ type theme park. This included a detailed masterplannig of the entire 120 acre site, with financial forecasts and possible revenue streams, including hotel locations, size and type. It also included concept deign to stage C, structural design and M&E for all architecture, exhibitions and rides on site. The final deliverables also contained A3 presentation booklets to present to MTDC a six minute animation and numerous reports.

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Re-introducing public space back into the city through interaction and activity, this will unite and strengthen fragmented communities, reducing de-centralization.

‘Nothing stops. It changes more every day and we know that those who day after day produce change that acts against them can appropriate it for themselves.’ The proposal has identified the current condition of the area and analysed it against the insertion of the new Trasa Slowackiego.

The reactive proposal highlights existing spaces of interaction and activity, (anarchy) strengthen and uses them along with key utilitarian (ochlarchic) insertions to produce micro-communities.

These communities are in constant flux, evolving and adapting through time dependent on the activity present within them.

As the micro communities evolve they overlap creating convergence zones. These zones form areas of interaction where ‘new public space’ can be re-introduced back into the city. As the micro-communities change through time so too does the type of activity and interaction that occurs. The proposal is a reaction to the issues caused by the insertion of the new road, if successful it can be adopted by other areas of the city and the framework matrix used at the meta-scale.

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